PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND ESTATE (LOTS 312-316)

A FRANCHINI GLASS SIGNED AND DATED SCATTERED MILLEFIORI WEIGHT AND AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED PIETRO BIGAGLIA GLASS SCENT BOTTLE AND COVER

THE WEIGHT SIGNED AND DATED WITH A 'GBF' INITIAL CANE AND '1845' CANE ASSOCIATED WITH GIOVANNI BATTISTA FRANCHINI AND WITH AN UNIDENTIFIED 'FA' CANE

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A FRANCHINI GLASS SIGNED AND DATED SCATTERED MILLEFIORI WEIGHT AND AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED PIETRO BIGAGLIA GLASS SCENT BOTTLE AND COVER
The weight signed and dated with a 'GBF' initial cane and '1845' cane associated with Giovanni Battista Franchini and with an unidentified 'FA' cane
Composed of swirling assorted millefiori canes, chaplet bead latticinio, aventurine and multi-colored ribbons and set with scattered murrini including: a gondola, a checkerboard cane, a rose blossom within a ribbon-tied wreath, a portrait of a woman with roses in her hair, a sun with a face and a single long stemmed rose; the scent bottle, circa 1847, the hinged cover inset with a faceted ruby glass 'gem', the chatelaine chain intact, the body set with assorted murrini including: a gondola, two unidentified portraits and a portrait of the Doge, the Prince of the Republic of Venice, the tip with a partial inverted plaque inscribed 'EZIA' likely for the IX Congresso Degli Scienziati in Venezia, 1847
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) diameter, 3 in. (7.5 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

For a scent-bottle set with a similar portrait of the Doge, see L.H. Selman Ltd, 27 February 1998, lot 303. The partial plaque in the present bottle likely refers to IX Congresso Degli Scienziati in Venezia 1847. Pietro Bigaglia is recorded producing a number of portraits and a commemorative complex black and white cane plaque for this seminal event.

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